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My wife has been doing her student teaching this week and trying to get the whole teacher role down. At any rate, she stayed after school for awhile yesterday to go over plans of what she will be doing for the semester. She is only obligated to be a student teacher for the fall semester and then she is done in December. After that it’s time for her to start finding a job.

This is where it gets interesting. Apparently a science teacher in the same group as the teacher my wife is student teaching under will be going on maternity leave. They are going to need someone to put in their place and my wife has a biology degree already and will have her education masters completed in December. From what she told me it sounds like they want to transition her right into a teaching role as a science teacher when she is done. I’m trying not to get too excited or jump to conclusions about this, but I think this is a very positive thing.

What was funny was I held back my reaction as best I could. My response was along the lines of that I felt that sounds like a good opening. Then she comes out with a compromising statement that if we did stay in our house longer, she would like to replace our kitchen/foyer flooring with linoleum. I estimate the cost of this to be about $500-700 which I would be willing to commit to in the event we hold off selling the house for awhile. This type of stuff my Dad and I could install, as we have done before.

She went downtown this past weekend to go shopping with her friends, which is good because I think she needed some social time with other females. At the same time her friend takes the taxi to places because parking is expensive. Apartments in the area we can afford to live are much smaller and everything much more crowded. I’m not sure if she wants to live close to her friends and the city based only on the idea of making more money when things will cost more overall.

We still have to make it through these next couple months on a tight budget. This is going to be a real challenge to be able to swing all of our expenses and still be able to do anything. What is going to be difficult is not going out to eat and forcing us to eat at home. We need to make it through these final months of her finishing school without an income. If this job is waiting for her when she is done, I think that is her finish line she needs to cross.

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